Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Industrial control systems (ICS) serve as the linchpin of modern manufacturing and critical infrastructure, facilitating automation ...
Before industrial control systems (ICSs) were network-connected, operators had little to worry about in the way of cyber threats. But as industrial environments, such as energy utilities, become more ...
As industrial control systems (ICSs) have become increasingly connected and use more off-the-shelf components, new vulnerabilities to cyber attacks have emerged. This tutorial looks at three types of ...
About 100,000 industrial control systems (ICS) were found on the public web, exposed to attackers probing them for vulnerabilities and at risk of unauthorized access. Among them are power grids, ...
On March 15, a significant alert was issued by the US-CERT regarding Russian state-sponsored threat activity against critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, aviation, and critical ...
Ransomware attacks are targeting legacy industrial control systems (ICS) and more needs to be done to secure networks at industrial facilities against the threat of being disrupted by cyber criminals ...
It’s been nearly impossible to miss all the news about the uptick in cyber-attacks on the manufacturing and processing industries over the past few years. The most recent uptick is not a surprising ...
The DHS report, “Seven Strategies to Defend ICSs,” issued in December 2015 by the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), highlights the increased frequency of successful ...
Do you have a real cybersecurity-focused ICS strategy in place, or are you force-fitting IT security policies on your industrial control systems? A recent incident where a likely nation-state threat ...
As technology spreads deeper into almost every facet of business, the government, our military and our personal lives, we are seeing a transition of systems from analog to digital. Unlike analog, ...
Rockwell Automation warned customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not designed for online exposure from the Internet due to increasing malicious activity worldwide. Network ...
Safety, reliability, and profitability within power, oil and gas, and other critical infrastructure facilities face a growing, worldwide threat from cyberattacks. These attacks exploit weaknesses in ...